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January 22, 2021 - Global - 96,000,000/2,000,000; USA - 24,500,000/409,000 Some confusion about whether 100 million doses in 100 days or 100 millionb people in 100 days. Finally straightened it out and it is "doses" not "people". Press are starting in aready in first criticizing that the goal is too lofty and now they are saying that the bar is tyoo low since we are already getting 800K per day. You just cannot win. -24,700,000/4 13,000 PRESS: CNN New Day with John Berman; Black News Channel with former Mayor Sharon Pratt; WTOP Radio with Mike Murillo; University of Montana Student newspaper (Jacob Owens); NPR - "All Things Considered" - Mary Louise Kelly; NBC LX TV with Tabitha Lipkin and Ashley Holt; Conference of Mayors Panel - with Vivek Murthy - picked up by networks, cable, and C-SPAN; MSNBC - Rachel Maddow;
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January 24, 2021(Sunday) - Global - 97,500,000/2,100,000; USA - 25,000,000/416,000 Deb Birx had a 45 minute taped interview with Margaret Brennan right after me. It was moving in some respects, but a fair bit of revisionist history. PRESS: CBS "Face the Nation" with Margaret Brennan; CBS Sunday with ted Koppel; Donald McNeil interview in the NY Times: NYT: Fauci on What Working for Trump Was Really Like
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January 25, 2021 - Global - 99,000,000/2,100,000; USA - 25,000,000/418,000 • Did really good WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM Panel chaired by John Mickethwait (Bloomberg) with panelists: Prime Minister of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis; Nancy Brown (CEO of American Heart Association) and Frans van Houten (CEO of Royal Philips) • The vaccine is now being referred to as the "Fauci Ouchie" • Many interviews today focusing in part on the fact that Deb (on Face the Nation) and I (in the interview with Donald McNeill) opened up about the difficulties in dealing with Trump Administration. A lot of discussion about the RSA and UK variants and the potential effect on mAbs and importantly vaccines. Thus far, even though the mutants diminish somewhat the efficacy of the vaccines, the antibody response of the vaccine is still within the cushion of efficacy. Recent data indicate that the UK strain is also increased in virulence as well as transmissibility. On an interview with Erin Burnett (CNN) I went PRESS: Good Morning America (ABC) with George Stephanopoulos; Today Show with Savannah Guthrie; CBS This Morning with Tony Mason; Latino USA Radio with Maria Hinojosa (NYC); Fireside chat with Leroy Hood on receiving the 2021 Precision Medicine World Conference Luminary Award; WBUR Boston NPR Radio; WGN Radio Chicago - Bob Sirott Show; ABC TV News Live Lindsey Davis; Spectrum News TV with Alex Cohen; CNN with Erin Burnett;
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January 30, 2021 - Global - 101,400,000/2,200,000; USA - 25,900,000/435,2000 Daily cases continue to come down, but growing concern about the arrival of mutants: B.1.1.7 (UK) in 30 states and 434 people infected; B1.351 (South Africa) with 2 cases in South Carolina; P.1 (Brazil with 1 case in Minnesota RSA strain identified today in person in Maryland Went on a filmed walk with Sanjay Gupta and Chris on the C & O Canal as part of the Documentary that he is doing (See yesterday). Had zoom call with Rob Manfred (Commissioner of MLB) and Dan Halem (Deputy Commissioner). They want to delay opening Spring training from February 17 to March17 and have a comparable delay in opening day. They want to do this since they feel (rightly so) that the decreases in cases will be even more pronounced with an additional month and they will be able to get more of the umpires and players vaccinated with the delay. Of note, Tom Frieden spoke with the MLB Players Association and the players want to start earlier since it affects their salaries. Now the Players want to speak with me. Contirmed Cases (Thousands) a 2M} » i a ai o fl es es 0; USA -- 25,900,000/438,000 -26,000,000/440,000 -26,200,000/442,000 New Confirmed COVID-19 Cases in the U.S. fil I 'im afl al Pit ATI oe I ia eye EES SNE IE by PS PESTESESESSESSRSISIRE 2020/2021 Oo eee Oy Moving Average 0 eee) Dy Mowing Averogo
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January 31, 2021 (Sunday) - Global - 102,100,000/2,200,000; USA - 25,900,000/438,000 Zoom calls today discussing: a) vaccinations for the Federal workforce b) Vivek just wanting to discuss masks, variants, schools, etc. - touching base.
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February 1, 2021 - Global - 102,600,000/2,200,000; USA -26,000,000/440,000 Had usual MWF Press conference by Zoom Had discussion with the team (+John Mascola) about how best to utilize the J & J product (Ad26). There will be a messaging issue about 72% versus 94-95%. We cannot designate it for any specific group for that reason and so we decided to just out it in the mix with the other vaccines and have people make their choice based mostly on 1 dose vs 2 doses. Got call tonight from Mayor Bill Di Blasio very concerned that the supply of vaccine for NYC is no where near meeting demand. He is begging me to check with WH and see if anything can be done - DPA or some other mechanism. I will speak with David Kessler about this. PRESS: White House Press conference with Nunez-Smith, Walensky and Slavitt; mGreta van Sustern - VOA; KMEX 34 TV - Los Angeles - Hispanic; CNN Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
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February 2, 2021 - Global - 103,000/2,200,000; USA -26,200,000/442,000 Daily cases going down but deaths still lagging at around 3000 per day NATIONWIDE COVID-19 METRICS. 7-DAY AVERAGE LINES 2.044 2.2 21M 2.0 1.9 1M 1M 16M 1.6M 14M I 12M 1.1 10M 0.9 0.6 OM 0.6M 0.64 0.4m 0.2 0.2 0.1m Daily Tests Feb 1; 1,610,238 7-Day Avg: 1,815,070 Apri dull 1 Oct Jan 200,000 275,000 260,000 225,000 200,000 175,000 150,000 125,000 100,000 75,000 50,000 25,000 Source: The COVID Tracking Project Daily Cases Feb 1: 119,747 7-Day Avg: 142,958 Oct Apri Jul dani Currently Hospitalized Feb 1: 93,536 7-Day Avg: 101,117 Ape Oct? Jani 4,600 4.000 3.500 3,000 2,500 2.000 1,600 1,000 5} o Apri1-Feb1 Daily Deaths Feb 1: 1,562 7-Day Avg: 3,131 Apri aa ett ant ®Single-day Record '@ ustralia "60 a Mutants continue to evolve with the 484K mutation characteristics of the B.1.351 lineage in RSA now being seen in the UK with the B.1.1.7 lineage. Goes along with what I have been saying that viruses will mutate if you give them free rein to replicate. Viruses that do not replicate will not mutate. Bill DiBlasio called me back and I explained to him that I had spoken to David Kessler about the Supply-demand issue with the vaccines and that there really was no solution. It is too late to invoke the DPA to have other factories make mRNA vaccine. By the time they gear up, there will be enough vaccine from multiple companies to vaccinate the entire country. Met with POTUS and VP in the Oval office with Jeff Zients, Natalie Quillian, Andy Slavitt and Walensky and Nunez-Smith on video screen. Discussed the status of the outbreak (Walensky) and vaccines, particularly recent data on J & J and implications for variants (Fauci) PRESS: Washington Post Live - Online interview with David Ignatius; Australia "60 Minutes" TV; MSNBC "All In" with Chris Hayes; CNN with Don Lemon Washington Post - 02/02/2021: Poor handling of virus cost Trump his reelection, campaign autopsy finds "Voters in the states overwhelmingly supported a mask mandate -- 75 percent -- and Anthony S. Fauci, the country's top infectious-disease specialist, secured an approval rating almost as high. Trump did not support a mask mandate -- sometimes mocking the wearing of masks -- and regularly criticized Fauci, threatening to fire him at times. Advisers repeatedly encouraged Trump to wear a mask, stop attacking Fauci and signal to the public that he was taking the coronavirus more seriously" THEPOINT CHRIS CILLIZZA Global USA New Daily Confirmed COVID-19 Cases in the U.S. oo E a ul E & too TH me of Je oe o& J» fo in oko A » = os a Soe oe Te a a ay FO oe ceo og oo of of a oo 2020/2021 How Anthony Fauci beat Donald Trump in
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February 3, 2021 - Global USA Biden Comms team putting me out there with the press continually. They are giving me totally open clearance for everything that I get asked to do. Completely different from the ridiculous restrictions of the Trump Comms team • Daily cases continuing to come own. Much emphasis on the impact of the variants. -26,400,000/449,000 --Global USA - PRESS: ABC Good Morning America with George Stephanopoulos; NBVC Today Show with Savannah Guthrie;
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February 4, 2021 - Global - 104,000,000/2,3200,000; USA - 26,400,000/449,000 Discussions last night and prior evenings regarding the use of the excess J & J vaccine of clinical trial grade. Move to donate this to RSA to vaccinate their HCWs. RSA has been pleading with the USA to help them get vaccines since they are being ravaged by the B.1.351 variant. Phone call last night with David Kessler, Beth Cameron/Hilary Marston (NSC), me and Cliff Lane to figure out a mechanism to get this to them since it is only clinical trial grade. And we want to avoid the optics that we are either a) giving away vaccine meant for USA to RSA or b) we are "experimenting" on black Africans. • Gave one of several plenary addresses at a Brookings -Tsinghua University Roundtable of US-China Collaboration on COVID-19. Chinese Speakers included Zhong Nanshan, Wang Chen, Gao Fu Had nice conversation with the MLB Players Association with Tony Clark (Exec Director), Bruce Meyer (Senior Director, Collective Bargaining and Legal), Ian Penny (General Counsel), Kevin Slowey (Director Player Services), Matthew Nessbaum (Deputy General Counsel), Robert Lenaghan (Assistant General Counsel) and Max Scherzer (member, Exec. Comm.). They asked great questions about vaccines. I emphasized that I did not want to get in the middle of a dispute between MLB and players regarding when to start the season. They understood perfectly. I had some nice back and forth with Max Scherzer. PRESS: BBC Radio with Tim Harford; NBC TV Boston - LaToya Edwards; MSNBC with Ari Melber; NBC TV "off the record" discussion with the entire NBC TV team; CNN with Chris Cuomo.